Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Evaporated fuel treatment apparatus and method of detecting failure in control valve
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Application No.: US13029405Application Date: 2011-02-17
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Publication No.: US08596251B2Publication Date: 2013-12-03
- Inventor: Ayumu Horiba , Masakazu Kitamoto , Koichi Hidano , Junji Saiga
- Applicant: Ayumu Horiba , Masakazu Kitamoto , Koichi Hidano , Junji Saiga
- Applicant Address: JP Tokyo
- Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee: Honda Motor Co., Ltd.
- Current Assignee Address: JP Tokyo
- Agency: Carrier Blackman & Associates, P.C.
- Agent Joseph P. Carrier; William D. Blackman
- Priority: JP2010-035088 20100219; JP2010-035136 20100219; JP2010-035137 20100219
- Main IPC: F02M33/02
- IPC: F02M33/02

Abstract:
An evaporated fuel treatment apparatus including a canister for adsorbing an evaporated fuel in a fuel tank, a control valve at a vapor path communicating with a fuel tank and a canister, has a dead-zone range where a flow of the evaporated fuel is blocked even if an opening angle of the control valve is increased in an open direction from zero opening angle, and allows the evaporated fuel to flow through over the dead-zone range. The control unit increases the opening angle from substantially zero to a predetermined angle in the dead-zone range and stands by prior to the opening control, and increases the opening angle from the predetermined angle upon the opening control. An output value by control unit set in the dead-zone range is compared with a detected value to detect a failure of the control valve.
Public/Granted literature
- US08627802B2 Evaporated fuel treatment apparatus and method of detecting failure in control valve Public/Granted day:2014-01-14
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